News from MadisonJournalTODAY - Topics from January, 2014

The Madison County System plans to return to a normal schedule for Friday, Jan. 31. “Secondary roads will be checked this evening (Thursday, Jan. 30) for refreezing concerns,” officials said. “If anything changes, we will update this announcement and start our standard protocol for notifying everyone. No additional or revised statement ...

Ty Cobb Health Care Systems, based in Lavonia, plans to sell the three nursing homes it owns, which includes Cobb Healthcare in Comer. TCHS, who also runs Ty Cobb Regional Hospital in Lavonia, announced in a press release last week that it has signed a non-binding letter of intent with Community Health Services of Georgia (CHS) and its ...
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Madison County elementary schools will close at noon Tuesday, Jan. 28, due to inclement weather, while Madison County Middle School and Madison County High School will close at 12:30 p.m. All extracurricular activities have been cancelled.

A Colbert man was arrested on family violence charges recently following a domestic dispute on Jack Sharp Road. Damato Jamentraviaus McCann, 24, was charged with one count of battery/simple battery FVA. On Jan. 10, deputy Brandon Moss was dispatched to Jack Sharp Road regarding a 9-1-1 call about a woman who said she had been hit in the head ...
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A Comer man was arrested on family violence charges allegedly involving his wife and small step child. Christopher Jack McDaniel, 34, was charged with false imprisonment, cruelty to children, battery/simple battery FVA and simple battery. According to the incident report from the Comer Police Department, McDaniel’s wife said her husband ...
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For the past two school years, Madison County High School students have seen the hard hats, the mud and the construction workers moving about. But in August, they’ll return to a finished product — or at least that’s the goal. The high school is undergoing a massive expansion, increasing the school’s size by 45 percent, from 135,285 ...
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